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Where the Road Turns by George Ault

Where the Road Turns

George Ault · 1939

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Artist
George Ault
Date
1939
ART MOVEMENTS
Precisionism
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THE ARTIST

George Ault

1891–1948 · United States

Precisionist painter who called skyscrapers 'tombstones of capitalism' and painted haunting nocturnes in poverty.

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